A Horror Movie, with style.

Rating: 8/10 (6 October 2011)

28 days later is one of the best horror films I've seen a while, the plot of the film is simple but effective. The film has a slow pace to it, but it works well for the film. The movie while not scary is quite creepy in a lot of ways. The plot of the movie is about a virus that escapes from a British research facility, then 28 days later we meet our main character Jim, and well the movie just continues on from there, if I said anything else, it would spoil the movie for you.
The story in this film works quite well, even though it's a simple one about a virus that infects people, it still works quite well. I don't think this film would have worked as well as it did, if it didn't such a great script. The film itself is slow paced, it takes time to develop its characters, instead of just killing them before we get to know them, and this is a nice change for once. This film isn't another mindless horror film, but a smart one that dares to be different. There are a few jump scares in this film of course, but they work rather well, and they're not the stupid, typical, crap that we usually see in horror films. The true horror behind this movie is not the virus itself, but the humans in the story, the humans that haven't been affected yet. I'm not talking about our main characters, but characters we meet later on in the film, who we think we can trust, but we really can't. The characters in this film are all developed in a great way that shows that a horror film can have characters that you actually care for, and not want to die. The film has a few surprises in it, that you won't see coming, now I won't tell you what they are, because that would spoil the movie for you. There's a scene towards the third act of the film that was disturbing, it's a scene involving our main characters, who just happen to have met up with the wrong people, this scene works quite well, because you're not expecting it all, you thought you could trust these people, but in reality you never could. I have to say that this scene was the best in the film, because of the way it was directed, the way the script work, but most of all because of the actors portraying the characters, I don't think the scene would've worked nearly as well, hadn't been for the actors portraying these characters.
Now the acting in the film itself is actually quite good. Each of the actors, give their best performance in the film, even if they're just in the film for a few moments. I have to say though, that the best actor in the film would have to be Megan Burns, she did an amazing job with portraying her character Hannah, the performance she gave, was just such an amazing one. Now the rest of the actors all did great as well, but Megan Burns just stood out from the rest, she had that charm that the rest of the actors didn't have. But like I said, they all did well in their own way.
Overall I would say watch this film, even if you don't like horror movies, I think you'd enjoy this one. It's not like every other horror film; it has a different feel to it.